
Dear Student,
I want to give you heartily welcome. Let me introduce myself and share with you what motivates me to offer you this training:
My health journey began when I purchased my first health food store in Tracy, California in 1979. Two years later, I bought my second health food store in Lodi, California. As I helped many customers with their health problems, I learned which natural remedies worked best. My clients also shared many healing stories about the natural remedies they used and their success.
I hosted a live radio called Healthline for 15 years. Every Tuesday morning, I shared a provocative health topic or interviewed an alternative doctor, natural healer, or health educator on a specific health subject. Through my diligent research, I acquired vast amounts of knowledge on various health subjects and a greater ability to answer live questions from callers.
I received 135 hours of training in Natural Healing, Herbology, Cleansing and Detoxification from Dr. Richard Schulze—a respected natural healer and master herbalist. Dr. Schulze taught me, “There are no incurable diseases.” I agree with the natural doctor, especially when the Lord is involved.
Another health mentor of mine was Charlotte Gerson, the daughter of the late Dr. Max Gerson. Dr. Gerson was the genius who developed the world famous Gerson Therapy. I had the privilege of visiting the Gerson Hospital and learning by Charlotte’s side on several occasions.
I have promoted Modern Manna’s Health and Healing Crusades in Lodi, California for the past 16 years. Some of the alternative doctors we have featured at the event are the following: Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Richard Schulze, Charlotte Gerson, Dr. Lorraine Day, and Howard Lyman—the Mad Cowboy.
As the Director of BellaVita Lifestyle Center and RISEN School of Natural Hygiene in California, I have supervised hundreds of cleansing clinics and lifestyle programs. At our facilities, we train our students in the practical application of natural remedies such as cold-sheet treatments, herbal remedies, aromatherapy, charcoal poultices, castor oil packs, massage, hydrotherapy colon cleansing, lifestyle medicine, and God’s Laws of Health.
Well, with this background and experiences I decided with my team to put together this training, where you can receive the best of all this knowledge and be inspired for your own health's sake and even start your journey towards your own health business and ministry.
Let me summarize what you are going to learn in this course:
After all this intro, let's dive into the first lesson. God be with you on this journey. I will do my best to respond to your questions and suggestions to make things better.
Sincerely yours,
Danny Vierra
The fad of following high protein diets seems to never fade. Not only are the weight loss results of these plans often temporary, but by following them you put your health at risk as well. Most of them are filled with fat, cholesterol, animal protein, microbes and environmental chemical contaminants, while being deficient in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, essential carbohydrates, and other phytonutrients. In the extreme forms (Atkins-type), they cause weight loss by causing you to become sick. The others work by the time-honored “starve-yourself-methods” (Zone-type), or by a combination of the two methods (South Beach Diet). For lifelong weight loss and good health, you should eat like thin people eat (rural Asians, Central Americans, Africans, etc.), i.e. a diet based on starches, vegetables and fruits.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
The fad of following high protein diets seems to never fade. Not only are the weight loss results of these plans often temporary, but by following them you put your health at risk as well. Most of them are filled with fat, cholesterol, animal protein, microbes and environmental chemical contaminants, while being deficient in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, essential carbohydrates, and other phytonutrients. In the extreme forms (Atkins-type), they cause weight loss by causing you to become sick. The others work by the time-honored “starve-yourself-methods” (Zone-type), or by a combination of the two methods (South Beach Diet). For lifelong weight loss and good health, you should eat like thin people eat (rural Asians, Central Americans, Africans, etc.), i.e. a diet based on starches, vegetables and fruits.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
The fad of following high protein diets seems to never fade. Not only are the weight loss results of these plans often temporary, but by following them you put your health at risk as well. Most of them are filled with fat, cholesterol, animal protein, microbes and environmental chemical contaminants, while being deficient in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, essential carbohydrates, and other phytonutrients. In the extreme forms (Atkins-type), they cause weight loss by causing you to become sick. The others work by the time-honored “starve-yourself-methods” (Zone-type), or by a combination of the two methods (South Beach Diet). For lifelong weight loss and good health, you should eat like thin people eat (rural Asians, Central Americans, Africans, etc.), i.e. a diet based on starches, vegetables and fruits.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
The fad of following high protein diets seems to never fade. Not only are the weight loss results of these plans often temporary, but by following them you put your health at risk as well. Most of them are filled with fat, cholesterol, animal protein, microbes and environmental chemical contaminants, while being deficient in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, essential carbohydrates, and other phytonutrients. In the extreme forms (Atkins-type), they cause weight loss by causing you to become sick. The others work by the time-honored “starve-yourself-methods” (Zone-type), or by a combination of the two methods (South Beach Diet). For lifelong weight loss and good health, you should eat like thin people eat (rural Asians, Central Americans, Africans, etc.), i.e. a diet based on starches, vegetables and fruits.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Dr. John McDougall explains how type-2 diabetes is caused by the rich western diet and how this adaptation is easily reversed by a healthy diet and associated weight loss. Drug therapies commonly prescribed for type-2 diabetes fatten, sicken, and kill patients, according to all recently published scientific research.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Dr. John McDougall explains how type-2 diabetes is caused by the rich western diet and how this adaptation is easily reversed by a healthy diet and associated weight loss. Drug therapies commonly prescribed for type-2 diabetes fatten, sicken, and kill patients, according to all recently published scientific research.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Dr. John McDougall explains how type-2 diabetes is caused by the rich western diet and how this adaptation is easily reversed by a healthy diet and associated weight loss. Drug therapies commonly prescribed for type-2 diabetes fatten, sicken, and kill patients, according to all recently published scientific research.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Dr. John McDougall explains how type-2 diabetes is caused by the rich western diet and how this adaptation is easily reversed by a healthy diet and associated weight loss. Drug therapies commonly prescribed for type-2 diabetes fatten, sicken, and kill patients, according to all recently published scientific research.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Excitotoxins are taste enhancers that are found in abundance in many food products and have been shown to cause damage to human brain cells. This dietary factor may be the cause of many degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease according to neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD. Learn how monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and similar substances effect the brain and the nervous system.
Instructions:
Watch video and read the book "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" before taking the test. This book is readily available online.
Excitotoxins are taste enhancers that are found in abundance in many food products and have been shown to cause damage to human brain cells. This dietary factor may be the cause of many degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease according to neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD. Learn how monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and similar substances effect the brain and the nervous system.
Instructions:
Watch video and read selections in the book before taking the test.
Excitotoxins are taste enhancers that are found in abundance in many food products and have been shown to cause damage to human brain cells. This dietary factor may be the cause of many degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease according to neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD. Learn how monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and similar substances effect the brain and the nervous system.
Instructions:
Watch video and read selections in the book before taking the test.
Excitotoxins are taste enhancers that are found in abundance in many food products and have been shown to cause damage to human brain cells. This dietary factor may be the cause of many degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease according to neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD. Learn how monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and similar substances effect the brain and the nervous system.
Instructions:
Watch video and read selections in the book before taking the test.
Whether you're drawn to chocolate, cookies, potato chips, cheese, or burgers and fries, we all have foods we can’t seem to resist — foods that sabotage our best efforts to lose weight and improve our health.
These foods are winning the battle — but that’s because we’re fighting it in the wrong place. As physician and leading health researcher Dr. Neal Barnard explains in this video, banishing these cravings is not a question of willpower or psychology — it's a question of biochemistry.
Based on the speaker's research and that of other leading investigators at major universities, Breaking the Food Seduction reveals the diet and lifestyle changes that can break these stubborn craving cycles. Using everyday examples, questionnaires, and practical tips, the video delivers.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Whether you're drawn to chocolate, cookies, potato chips, cheese, or burgers and fries, we all have foods we can’t seem to resist — foods that sabotage our best efforts to lose weight and improve our health.
These foods are winning the battle — but that’s because we’re fighting it in the wrong place. As physician and leading health researcher Dr. Neal Barnard explains in this video, banishing these cravings is not a question of willpower or psychology — it's a question of biochemistry.
Based on the speaker's research and that of other leading investigators at major universities, Breaking the Food Seduction reveals the diet and lifestyle changes that can break these stubborn craving cycles. Using everyday examples, questionnaires, and practical tips, the video delivers.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Whether you're drawn to chocolate, cookies, potato chips, cheese, or burgers and fries, we all have foods we can’t seem to resist — foods that sabotage our best efforts to lose weight and improve our health.
These foods are winning the battle — but that’s because we’re fighting it in the wrong place. As physician and leading health researcher Dr. Neal Barnard explains in this video, banishing these cravings is not a question of willpower or psychology — it's a question of biochemistry.
Based on the speaker's research and that of other leading investigators at major universities, Breaking the Food Seduction reveals the diet and lifestyle changes that can break these stubborn craving cycles. Using everyday examples, questionnaires, and practical tips, the video delivers.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
Whether you're drawn to chocolate, cookies, potato chips, cheese, or burgers and fries, we all have foods we can’t seem to resist — foods that sabotage our best efforts to lose weight and improve our health.
These foods are winning the battle — but that’s because we’re fighting it in the wrong place. As physician and leading health researcher Dr. Neal Barnard explains in this video, banishing these cravings is not a question of willpower or psychology — it's a question of biochemistry.
Based on the speaker's research and that of other leading investigators at major universities, Breaking the Food Seduction reveals the diet and lifestyle changes that can break these stubborn craving cycles. Using everyday examples, questionnaires, and practical tips, the video delivers.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
There is a split right down the middle of modern medicine. One half, boosted by dazzling high technology, shows brilliant results in handling acute diseases and emergencies. The other half, dealing with chronic degenerative conditions, is lagging behind, unable to offer more than symptomatic treatment for the most widespread distressing conditions ranging from cancer, heart disease and hypertension to diabetes, arthritis and morbid obesity. It is assumed that these and other "diseases of modern civilization" are both inevitable and incurable. Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases contradicts all such assumptions. As a complete guide to the theory and practice of the Gerson Therapy, developed over 80 years ago by Dr. Max Gerson, MD (1881-1959), it shows that the increasingly denatured, nutritionally empty, toxic modern diet is the main cause of today's worsening health crisis. This book offers the solution in the form of a brilliant, precision-built nutritional program that eliminates the underlying causes of disease, leading to lasting cures. This program is best known for its success in curing many types of cancer, but it also has an excellent track record with a large number of other degenerative conditions.
Instructions:
Watch video and read the book "Healing The Gerson Way" before taking the test. This book is available from us: https://modernmannahealth.com/products/healing-the-gerson-way
There is a split right down the middle of modern medicine. One half, boosted by dazzling high technology, shows brilliant results in handling acute diseases and emergencies. The other half, dealing with chronic degenerative conditions, is lagging behind, unable to offer more than symptomatic treatment for the most widespread distressing conditions ranging from cancer, heart disease and hypertension to diabetes, arthritis and morbid obesity. It is assumed that these and other "diseases of modern civilization" are both inevitable and incurable. Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases contradicts all such assumptions. As a complete guide to the theory and practice of the Gerson Therapy, developed over 80 years ago by Dr. Max Gerson, MD (1881-1959), it shows that the increasingly denatured, nutritionally empty, toxic modern diet is the main cause of today's worsening health crisis. This book offers the solution in the form of a brilliant, precision-built nutritional program that eliminates the underlying causes of disease, leading to lasting cures. This program is best known for its success in curing many types of cancer, but it also has an excellent track record with a large number of other degenerative conditions.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
There is a split right down the middle of modern medicine. One half, boosted by dazzling high technology, shows brilliant results in handling acute diseases and emergencies. The other half, dealing with chronic degenerative conditions, is lagging behind, unable to offer more than symptomatic treatment for the most widespread distressing conditions ranging from cancer, heart disease and hypertension to diabetes, arthritis and morbid obesity. It is assumed that these and other "diseases of modern civilization" are both inevitable and incurable. Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases contradicts all such assumptions. As a complete guide to the theory and practice of the Gerson Therapy, developed over 80 years ago by Dr. Max Gerson, MD (1881-1959), it shows that the increasingly denatured, nutritionally empty, toxic modern diet is the main cause of today's worsening health crisis. This book offers the solution in the form of a brilliant, precision-built nutritional program that eliminates the underlying causes of disease, leading to lasting cures. This program is best known for its success in curing many types of cancer, but it also has an excellent track record with a large number of other degenerative conditions.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
There is a split right down the middle of modern medicine. One half, boosted by dazzling high technology, shows brilliant results in handling acute diseases and emergencies. The other half, dealing with chronic degenerative conditions, is lagging behind, unable to offer more than symptomatic treatment for the most widespread distressing conditions ranging from cancer, heart disease and hypertension to diabetes, arthritis and morbid obesity. It is assumed that these and other "diseases of modern civilization" are both inevitable and incurable. Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases contradicts all such assumptions. As a complete guide to the theory and practice of the Gerson Therapy, developed over 80 years ago by Dr. Max Gerson, MD (1881-1959), it shows that the increasingly denatured, nutritionally empty, toxic modern diet is the main cause of today's worsening health crisis. This book offers the solution in the form of a brilliant, precision-built nutritional program that eliminates the underlying causes of disease, leading to lasting cures. This program is best known for its success in curing many types of cancer, but it also has an excellent track record with a large number of other degenerative conditions.
Instructions:
Watch video before taking the test.
"God has caused to grow out of the ground herbs for the use of man and if we understand the nature of these roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor so frequently, and people would be be in much better health than they are today." (PH 144)
Instructions:
Watch video and read the book "The Place of Herbs in Rational Therapy" (PDF included) before taking the test.
Recommended reading: "Herbal Medicine, From the Heart of the Earth":
https://modernmannahealth.com/products/vegetarian-cooking-school-cookbook
"God has caused to grow out of the ground herbs for the use of man and if we understand the nature of these roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor so frequently, and people would be be in much better health than they are today." (PH 144)
Instructions:
Watch video and read selections in the book before taking the test.
"God has caused to grow out of the ground herbs for the use of man and if we understand the nature of these roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor so frequently, and people would be be in much better health than they are today." (PH 144)
Instructions:
Watch video and read selections in the book before taking the test.
"God has caused to grow out of the ground herbs for the use of man and if we understand the nature of these roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor so frequently, and people would be be in much better health than they are today." (PH 144)
Instructions:
Watch video and read selections in the book before taking the test.
It is known that specific patterns of thought and behavior are associated with certain types of diseases. In some types of cancer there can be a specific bitterness. Autoimmune diseases can be associated with self-hatred. “As we attack ourselves with our own words, thoughts or actions, we see a corresponding autoimmune response resulting in an autoimmune disease” (In His Own Image, p. 44). It has been proven that certain negative emotions cause the body to produce specific autoantibodies that will only attack a specific organ or cell in the body. Research has demonstrated that just six minutes of a negative emotion can suppress the immune system for more than 21 hours.
Instructions:
Read the booklet Can Attitude Affect your Health? and watch the video.
The booklet has been added to your Resources Book Library. The test for this lesson is included in the next Lesson.
It is known that specific patterns of thought and behavior are associated with certain types of diseases. In some types of cancer there can be a specific bitterness. Autoimmune diseases can be associated with self-hatred. “As we attack ourselves with our own words, thoughts or actions, we see a corresponding autoimmune response resulting in an autoimmune disease” (In His Own Image, p. 44). It has been proven that certain negative emotions cause the body to produce specific autoantibodies that will only attack a specific organ or cell in the body. Research has demonstrated that just six minutes of a negative emotion can suppress the immune system for more than 21 hours.
Instructions:
Read the booklet Can Attitude Affect your Health? and watch the video.
The booklet has been added to your Resources Book Library. The test for this lesson is included in the next Lesson.
It is known that specific patterns of thought and behavior are associated with certain types of diseases. In some types of cancer there can be a specific bitterness. Autoimmune diseases can be associated with self-hatred. “As we attack ourselves with our own words, thoughts or actions, we see a corresponding autoimmune response resulting in an autoimmune disease” (In His Own Image, p. 44). It has been proven that certain negative emotions cause the body to produce specific autoantibodies that will only attack a specific organ or cell in the body. Research has demonstrated that just six minutes of a negative emotion can suppress the immune system for more than 21 hours.
Instructions:
Read the booklet Can Attitude Affect your Health? and watch the video.
The booklet has been added to your Resources Book Library. The test for this lesson is included in the next Lesson.
It is known that specific patterns of thought and behavior are associated with certain types of diseases. In some types of cancer there can be a specific bitterness. Autoimmune diseases can be associated with self-hatred. “As we attack ourselves with our own words, thoughts or actions, we see a corresponding autoimmune response resulting in an autoimmune disease” (In His Own Image, p. 44). It has been proven that certain negative emotions cause the body to produce specific autoantibodies that will only attack a specific organ or cell in the body. Research has demonstrated that just six minutes of a negative emotion can suppress the immune system for more than 21 hours.
Instructions:
Read the booklet Can Attitude Affect your Health? and watch the video.
The booklet has been added to your Resources Book Library. The test for this lesson is included in the next Lesson.
Lesson continues.
Instructions:
Watch the video and take the test.
Congratulations on completing the course!
Lesson continues.
Instructions:
Watch the video and take the test.
Congratulations on completing the course!
Lesson continues.
Instructions:
Watch the video and take the test.
Congratulations on completing the course!
Lesson continues.
Instructions:
Watch the video and take the test.
Congratulations on completing the course!
Congratulations! We thank you for completing our online two-part RISEN course. You are now eligible to apply for our 14-day in-resident course where you can become a Certified Natural Hygiene Coach. For more information and to fill out your application, visit: http://www.modernmanna.org/risen/
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Whether you wish to learn for yourself or you would like to open your own lifestyle-center as a business, this training will benefit you. Lifestyle diseases negatively affect our western society greater than 75%. The majority of these diseases are preventable and reversible by changing lifestyle habits and the use of simple natural remedies and health principles.
Master the principles of health and healing using the simple and effective agencies of nature. Teach others and create your own health business.
Uniqueness of this program
This course is unique because it combines preventive medicine, detoxification, and the use of natural remedies and herbs. This course is based on Biblical principles.
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